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Camp Directors

Lewis Norfleet is Director of Bands at Central Washington University where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches instrumental conducting. He also leads the CWU Wildcat Marching Band and is co-conductor of the Symphonic Band.

Prior to coming to CWU, Mr. Norfleet taught at the secondary and collegiate levels for 19 years. Recently, he served as Director of Bands at Union High School (WA), a position he held since the school opened in 2007. During his tenure, Union HS ensembles performed at the 2010 Midwest Clinic, 2012 Music for All/Bands of America National Concert Band Festival, 2013 NAfME Northwest Conference, and the 2010 and 2012 Washington Music Educators Association State Conferences. Prior to his time at Union, his high school programs in Oregon and Washington were recognized as Oregon State Concert Band Champions, were three-time Northwest Marching Band Circuit Champions, and were twice named a Grammy Foundation Signature School. Before teaching in the public schools, Lewis was the Director of Athletic Bands and Assistant Director of Bands at Oregon State University. While at OSU the bands performed at the Fiesta Bowl, Oahu Bowl, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan.

Mr. Norfleet has been involved in a number of community and non-profit organizations that support music education in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently the Executive Director of Northwest Youth Music Association as well as the director of the Seattle Cascades Drum and Bugle Corps. From 2007 to 2013 he served as co-conductor of the Southwest Washington Wind Symphony, performing numerous concerts each year, including an appearance at the Western International Band Clinic in 2009. He was a founding member of the Northwest Association for the Performing Arts and was on the board of directors for the organization for nine years, serving as president from 2004-2008.

Mr. Norfleet is also active as a composer and arranger having produced over 300 works for concert band, marching band, jazz band, percussion ensemble and various chamber ensembles. While most of his works have been privately commissioned, some have been published by Tapspace Publications, Matrix Publishing, Jalen Publishing, Marching Monk, Center X Productions, and Marching Show Concepts. He currently serves as a composer and/or arranger for ensembles across the United States and is in demand as an adjudicator and clinician for concert and marching festivals throughout the country.

Lewis studied instrumental conducting at the University of Washington and is also an alumnus of the University of Oregon where he graduated with honors. He is a member of the Washington Music Educators Association and College Band Directors National Association.

CWU Drum Major / Leadership Academy Director

Jeffrey Rowser is a native of Attalla, Alabama and is a 1976 graduate of Etowah High School, where he lettered 3 years in band, basketball and track. Mr. Rowser later graduated from Auburn University (AU) with his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Music Education. He was a saxophone major, studying with Lawrence Morgan. He also studied music arranging with Dr. Johnnie Vinson and Bob Richardson. He performed his student teaching duties with the legendary Tommy Goff at Auburn High School in 1980. While at Auburn, he was drum major of the Auburn University Marching Band for three years. His appointment by Dr. Bill Walls made Jeffrey the first African American Drum Major at Auburn University and in the Southeastern Conference.

Mr. Rowser, recently selected to be Director of Bands at Morgan County HS, brings 30 years of experience in music education. He was chosen in 2006, to lead the East Jackson Fine Arts Department in Jackson County Schools (GA). His hiring in 2006-07 was to prepare a Fine Arts Department that would begin its work in August 2007. He was chosen as “Teacher of the Year” for East Jackson in 2011. Prior to East Jackson, he served as a director in Dougherty County, Marietta City Schools(STAR Teacher 1988), with 15 years serving as the founding director at Salem HS (Conyers, GA), where he was “Teacher of the Year” in 1994 for Rockdale County Schools. During his career his bands received Superior Ratings in all marching, jazz and symphonic music events. His bands have won over 500 awards, with 300 of those coming at Salem HS as “Superior, Best-in-Class and Grand Champion” awards in band, drum major, colorguard, and winterguard and drum line. His bands have received special invitations to perform in London, Toronto, Hawaii, Orlando, Kansas City and NY. His groups have performed frequently in the Atlanta Children’s Healthcare Parade televised on WSB-TV2. He and his wife, Vernelle, established the Salem HS Dance Team that won 9-State Champion Awards in both Jazz and Pom style competition. During those years the group also earned a national ranking with the Universal Dance Association held annually in Orlando, Florida.

In 1991, Rowser became a co-founder of the “Drum Major Leadership Academy” held annually on the campus of Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville. His student management workshop, “Team Building Anywhere” is a featured session for band, chorus and student council groups around Georgia. He is now the founder of “Premier Drum Major and Leadership Academy” in South Carolina, Alabama and recently established at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA. He is also a frequent clinician, adjudicator and guest conductor of Regional and State Band events in the Southeast. He has served on the Georgia Music Educators Board of Directors and organized several district events.